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Walking Out Of Psycho In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

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Walking out of Psycho, like I did yesterday is an unusual and an exhilarating experience that leaves you with a feeling of watching history. In the film the viewer is taken on a journey never seen before in an American theater, a 1 hour and 49 minute conquest filled with murder, mystery and a true psycho. The film, not only reinventing the genre of horror but also leaves the screening with the feeling of watching cinematic history. Psycho, another film by Alfred Hitchcock that teeters on the edge of visionary direction and reinventing of the norms for a hollywood film. Starting in Phoenix Arizona, Psycho shows you the perspective of Marion Crane, a woman who is on the run with stolen money with the hopes of starting a new life with her lover, …show more content…

Martin Balsam’s character, Arbogast, felt like something to connect the pieces on the plot and nothing more. The truly fascinating relationship that develops in the third act of the film is the relationship between Lila Crane and Sam Loomis, it is one of true courage and a never ending quest to uncover the truth about Marion’s disappearance. Overall, if there is one thing in the movie you can complain about, it most certainly isn’t the main …show more content…

The movie does an excellent job in building suspense throughout the movie trying to find a motive for an otherwise heinous crime and delivers on a ending that is deserving of the title. There are a few points in the movie where you wish there could of been more dialogue to truly develop some of the minor characters, however with a film like this there isn’t much to be gained from more dialogue. Overall, Psycho is deserving of 4 out of 4 stars for a truly riveting movie that leaves the audience in pure anticipation for what might happen next, and leaves me the critique excited to dive into more of Hitchcock’s

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The scene gets more depth with Hitchcock’s flagellating the viewers with shrieking violin sounds that the viewers cannot evade just like Marion can from the slashing knife. Truffaut calls the entire construction of Psycho “a sort of scale of the abnormal” (277). Marion, the sexy blonde woman, a natural object of desire is stabbed by Norman’s mother in the shower even before half of the movie is over. According to David Lehman “The greatest danger is the nearest, and one reason the shower scene in Psycho is the scariest and most threatening in all of Hitchcock is that it violates the defenceless heroine in the most private and intimate of places” (5).

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